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Closed AccountJun 23, 2010Submitter
Yes I know that oil is not water soluble, but it evidently got kicked up in the wind. Just wait until hurricane season.
wildJun 24, 2010
If it can rain frogs, it can rain oil.
wildJun 24, 2010
Yes, thank you for the link. Was there a reason for it?
inajeepJun 24, 2010
I suppose dead oily frogs is not out of the realm of possibilities too.
silentjJun 24, 2010
Deadly oil frogs?
KILL THEM WITH FIRE!
socialistmediaJun 24, 2010
oh god flaming oiled toad rain :(
jackopforJun 24, 2010
That would be biblical!
sonstoneJun 24, 2010
Just wait till it starts raining men.
storm8956Jun 24, 2010
I've heard this "if it can rain frogs, it can rain oil" line before from people, and it is really faulty logic if used to support an idea of possible widespread oil-laden rainfall. The only way it can ever rain frogs, fish, etc. is if they are lofted by a sufficiently strong vortex (i.e., waterspout).
Since waterspouts are not uncommon with hurricanes, it is possible for oil to lofted and precipitate, though there are some limiting factors. For one, a hurricane will act to increase turbulent mixing in the water, thus, in the aggregate, acting to lessen oil concentrations, so chances that high density oil pockets would be tapped are low. Once lifted, intense thunderstorm winds would act to disperse oil even further. Also, hurricane induced tornadoes and waterspouts are notoriously short lived, so opportunity to loft oil would be brief and highest chances for oiled precipitation would be a relatively short distance downwind from the point of the waterspout's origin.
The post I saw about potential for lighter crude to be evaporated is interesting, but I would guess that such evaporation is a lot more likely under condition of strong radiative heating on a cloudless than during a hurricane. Perhaps if spray from turbulent mixing create a very diffuse solution it would be possible, though that could be a fairly baseless hypothetical as far as I know. Even if that did happen, I would think that such a highly diffuse solution would have impact so low that rainfall-associated effects might not even be noticed.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
alibenxJun 24, 2010
You've heard this "if it can rain frogs, it can rain oil" line before? Really?
trifoldJun 24, 2010
Storm seems like the kind of guy who would walk into a preschool and mathematically prove that Santa can't possibly visit every house on Earth in one night and therefore isn't real.
scoot2006Jun 24, 2010
If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball.
addiktionJun 24, 2010
Our species would have died off long ago if it could rain anything but clean water. Luckily these kinds of things only happen in rare occurrences when fish and other animals get the urge to ride hurricanes and such for fun.
murxJun 24, 2010
@storm8956
Well there is more to it.
First of there is no need for a waterspout - it can be more akin to sandstorms.
Since the oil - esp. through dispersant! - is on the surface of the ocean small droplets are produced by waves - like sea foam. Those droplets are small and light enough to be picked up by lesser wind, no hurricane needed (but a bit stormy would be appreciated).
Second since the oil travels in its solid form - and not like the water in evaporated form - it has a higher density and will drop at a different time then the potential rain. Thus there is no 'mixing' and thus more diffuse solution of oil and water.
Infact the OPPOSITE will be the truth because the oil/water droplets will lose the water through evaporation while in the air. Since this happens with all droplets at the same time they are more likely to drop at the same time since their density rises equally.
If this 'oil rain' is true - it is more likely a 'sandstorm' like event.
sil369Jun 24, 2010
i once saw a movie where it rained frogs.... i dont remember the name....but it began with M....???
kinseyincanadaJun 24, 2010
"Spiders fell from the sky in Salta Province, Argentina on April 6, 2007" WORST f**kING DAY EVER!
moralogicJun 25, 2010
Can it rain hot naked women? That is the storm I am looking for.
iwantmysnbackJun 24, 2010
Hurricane season... ah the reason we all moved out of the state the first time.
Oh and "America! where the streets are paved with gold!!! or at least lined in black gold?"
rpatrick819Jun 24, 2010
All moved out of the state? I was under the impression most hung around living in their bowl while the rest of the nation paid for food/repairs/etc.
savageindustrieJun 24, 2010
I hope those assh**es have insurance now! Who the hell lives below sea level near water anyway?
iwantmysnbackJun 24, 2010
I moved to the Mid Atlantic, oh and still have a place in New Orleans.
as for SavangeIndustrie.....
Your statement of insurance.... I have insurance... they are still trying to pay me back for 2005. Apparently when a hurricane comes, the three different insurance agencies get "confused" as to who has to pay, Flood, Hurricane, or Home owners. s**tty part is, its all the same company.
and finally.... other people who need more/better insurance:
BP
Wall Street
soccer refs (well life insurance)
the healthcare bill (yes, needs its own insurance)
people who live in dry states
people who live in wetlands
people who live in big cities
people who take DC public metro
and...
people who have an iphone (by insurance I mean a Verizon phone, just in case)
universaljointJun 25, 2010
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Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
It can be light components that have evaporated and condensated like water. It can be an oily leftover of the oil burning (which would be poisonous). Or it can be motor oil from some damaged car at this place (this would be disproved if similar videos show up from other places).
If it is really all over the place they should bring a sample to a lab.
chaosprofessorJun 24, 2010
For thoese that don't understand Dilberto
http://xkcd.com/748/
goweigusJun 24, 2010
oh s**t I forgot about the hurricanes!
johntitor0Jun 24, 2010
its been hurricane season down here for a while now....../fingers crossed
letterqJun 24, 2010
True, if you consider just over three weeks to be "a while." Hurricane season in the Atlantic begins June 1st and ends November 30th. It's predicted to be a very bad hurricane year, and there has already been a lot more potential for tropical storm development in the Atlantic than there was last year at this time. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
fdsa1342Jun 24, 2010
I like how "hurricane season" used to be called summer. . . .
vinny337Jul 3, 2010
LOL i love it
thahelpJun 24, 2010
2 points, one for one against.
Against: If it were raining oil this would be all over NPR and/or PRI. These are pretty reliable american news sources and do the research before posting something.
For: Hasn't anyone thought about "burning oil?" When the wells burned in the Persian Gulf, some of the oil didn't burn but still went into the air. It resulted in an "oil rain," even when not in close proximity to a burning well.
hrishikesJun 24, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qFdbUEq5s
OMG she was right,,,!!!
random12345Jun 24, 2010
It is hurricane season (June 1 to November 30)
-Florida resident
berkanaJun 24, 2010
Couldn't it potentially be the case that some of the volatile components of oil evaporate along with the water when exposed to the heat of the sun, and condense with the water when it rains?
I know oil isn't soluble with water, but what I described above seems plausible. The oil doesn't have to be blown around by the wind; it could vaporize and condense alongside water.
zombielordzeroJun 24, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlC9W8EqRUQ&feature=related
it is destroying crops, trees, and potentially livestock without reguard to use of presticides. The only common link is exposure to rain water from the gulf of mexico. BP will never have enough money to clean this up.
epersonJun 25, 2010
Oil + Dispersant could do something like this - not that the dispersant manufacturer or BP has any vested interest in seeing where in the water column it disperses too.
Just that the plume cannot possibly exist...
newmanium2001Jun 25, 2010
Oil might actually have a positive effect against hurricanes. Hydrologists and meteorologists discussing climate engineering have toyed with the idea of distributing a bio-degradable oil-like substance across the Gulf to increase surface tension and prevent the evaporation of water (which strengthens hurricanes).
Obviously this is real oil and not very easily biodegradable, but the oil should definitely hurt hurricane strength.
tentenwinsJun 25, 2010
well..either it got kicked up in the wind...or this video is bulls**t.
I choose the latter...FAR more obviously correct scenario.
chroniccolonicJun 23, 2010
I can just hear it now... "I moved to the south to get away from the snow. Now instead of shoveling snow I gotta go out and degrease the house and yard."
Closed AccountJun 23, 2010Submitter
The snowbirds aren't going to be too pleased about slipping and breaking their hips on the freshly-lubed sidewalks.
hiropendragonJun 24, 2010
Maybe the snowbirds in Florida will start voting for more pro-environmentalist candidates instead of traditionally conservative candidates, eh?
Nah, who am I kidding? They'll just move to the Southwest.
... and people are still questioning whether a moratorium on new drilling is wise. ^%#&^%$^&!
thcobbsJun 24, 2010
Its a pointless waste of time and keeps people out of work... even if its 1% of oil workers affected...
All you'll get is more rules, higher fees, and then they'll be back at work. All that's going to be lost is time and some families paychecks.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
crob5Jun 24, 2010
@hiro
Actually, Florida is the ONLY state in the gulf where the citizens have fought offshore drilling tooth and nail. We have received none of the spoils but now stand to be harder hit than anyone in the long run. I have to watch day by day as the place I grew up is slowly destroyed, because the other Gulf states' politicians couldn't resist sticking their fat corrupt hands in the honeypot.
For your edification:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/us/13florida.htm ...
But yeah, thanks for your support, assh**e.
raumschiffJun 24, 2010
That's what they say. More degrees in the south.
elburro88Jun 25, 2010
I reaaaally hate to degrease oily plastic boxes when I do the dishes. Can't imagine how it'd be like to degrease the whole f..... neighborhood. I'd probably just move.
icadilJun 23, 2010
Raining oil... I thought this was another parody. For the first time since this oil spill, I am actually kind of worried.
Closed AccountJun 23, 2010Submitter
Nope. No Weather Girls video today.
wildJun 24, 2010
[For the first time since this oil spill, I am actually kind of worried.]
Seriously? You;re only NOW worried? It wasn't the "chocolate covered" pelicans, or BP's ignorance in knowing how to stop the spill, or the miles of shrinking wetlands that are setting the Gulf up for a natural disaster worse than Katrina?
Only now, when the oil can possibly move freely deeply inland (and perhaps into your own water supply) do you get worried?
legoalert33Jun 24, 2010
I hate people that use brackets instead of quotes.
None the less, I'm still am not worried about the oil. It's just to far away to care and chocolate pelicans are tasty. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
1ofmanyJun 24, 2010
Wild,
He isn't officially worried yet. He's just "kind of" worried.
sheesh
wildJun 24, 2010
[I hate people that use brackets instead of quotes.]
I dislike it when people use quotes when quoting someone in a comment thread. Brackets make it clear you are quoting a user, while quote marks could refer to any comments by any person. Makes it easier to tell direct responses.
But either way, I certainly don't hate people for their grammar preferences.
icadilJun 27, 2010
It hasn't directly threatened me yet, and from what I could tell the damage was confined to a single geographic area. IF this crap can now evaporate and travel via clouds to other places, then yes now I am actually worried. This makes the cleanup mean more, as now human lives are more directly in the line than just the beaches. f**k the wildlife, I worry when humans are directly threatened, and don't argue that wildlife threatened is humanity threatened. We can survive without a few dead species.
christoastJun 24, 2010
The video is good, it's the title that is bad. the title makes no sense it doesn't mean that there isn't oil all over the place in Louisiana.
v3n0mJun 24, 2010
hallelujah?
nx45Jun 25, 2010
Holy Hand Grenade?
peestandingupJun 24, 2010
This isn't funny. IF this is actually happening, it could effect more than just the gulf states.
Does anyone know the effect the dispersants they're using have on this being possible? I've read that oil alone cant be absorbed into rain clouds, but the chemicals make it "lighter" so it becomes more mixed in with the water.
newms32Jun 24, 2010
Ever see an oil cloud? You'll need one of those before you see oil rain. The volatile organic compounds are the only things in oil that will evaporate at a rate significant enough to have consequences in the air. They are light and are dispersed quickly before having a chance to become concentrated enough for any cloud-forming effect to occur. And many or most of them are gases at lower atmospheric temperatures and therefore can't become liquid.
ygeoff421Jun 24, 2010
WE MUST BAN WINDEX!
xbobarenoxJun 28, 2010
This could be Corexit 9500, the dispersal agent that BP is pumping into the oil well. It is both a highly toxic chemical designed for colder water like the North Atlantic, and quickly evaporates in the warm waters of the Gulf. The agent is water soluble, and easily mixes with the clouds and could most definitely produce precipitation.
peestandingupJun 24, 2010
It doesn't have to be an "oil cloud" for particles to travel from the ocean to land. Don't act like it's so unheard of. It's rained all sorts of s**t throughout history, including animals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raining_animals
black27696Jun 24, 2010
Yeah but it's more "wind" than it is "rain"
Thanks for assuring me though. I was a wreck before reading that sentence.
particleman420Jun 24, 2010
"stuff being blown around by wind" is not the same as "raining stuff"
they dont say that it rained boats when they find some sailboats blown inland by a hurricane do they?
same differenceComment is buried, click here to see the rest.
aliterationaaJun 24, 2010
Peestandingup, I found this in that wiki article you linked to: http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-10-12/60694.html
Thank you for the nightmares.
deuce66Jun 25, 2010
Why are particleman and black getting buried? Rain is evaporated water condensing and falling from the sky. This is just oil being carried by the wind. I don't see how its rain. Tragic, yes. Rain, no.
rethreadJun 25, 2010
s**t rains down on your head and it's fair to call s**t raining down period. I don't care if it's a bunch of boxes in a closed closet, s**t is raining down.
And no, I would not prefer to clarify the example, provide more information, or explain. It's frighteningly embarrassing, so ummm, no.
frequentflyerJun 24, 2010
Who said this was funny?
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
This could be huge. People dump crap oil and gas in the weeds because it knocks them down dead in minutes. This could wipe out whole crops. This is going to be very bad.
khastJun 25, 2010
I work on a golf course, I could tell you the effects of just about any oil on plant life... we've had many hydraulic leaks in the past...1 of the leaks happened the first week when I started...it has been over 2 years...and it is still bare.
Oops we spilled gas on a patch of grass...it took about 8 months for anything to grow there..and it took nearly a year for it to completely grow back.
Grease from the greens mowers? Like stripes on the greens that don't go away?
Yeah, petroleum products kill anything green....except blackberries and horsetail.
atarioJun 24, 2010
The oily rain would be bad enough, but they have to worry about the dispersants in there too. That s**t will kill the soil for good.
pimpwillyJun 24, 2010
Not sure how real the video is, this is the comment the guy who uploaded it left as a reply:
"
@RedScorpion77 No I am not joking, at all. Biblical proportions can mean either of 2 things, something really, really big OR Biblical prophecy. When I said Biblical proportions I meant something huge, BUT you might also check out Revelations 8:8 and Revelations 16:3. so in theory it might even fit into that scenario. There is enough going on in the world today to fit Biblical prophecy and many of us think we may be in the end times."
Seems like he's just trying to drum up some Religious Hysteria here
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
American Greed does damage to greater parts of America. I hope you remember until next elections, but who am I kidding...
jadrianJun 25, 2010
"... it could _affect_ ..."
Seriously it's not that difficult.
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
The EPA says it IS possible for light crude to evaporate with the water.
wf80diditJun 24, 2010
The EPA also told the 9/11 Search & Rescue crews the air was safe to breath. Now they're all dying from lung disease.
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
I'm sorry but how does this refute the study done by mms?
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
I wouldn't trust a goddamn thing the mms says.
cl1mh4224rdJun 24, 2010
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wf80diditJun 24, 2010
I'm referring to then EPA Director, now Gov of NJ, Christie Whitman, saying how there's asbestos, lead and voc's in the air but it's still safe to breath. Here's a clip from the day after of her saying it in her own words. Unfortunately, that was the advice that was followed, not what you mention... Everything in that article you quoted wasn't even formulated until way way after 9/11 and was only written in response to all the truthers questions about sick and dying rescuers.
inactiveuserJun 24, 2010
If this is true then prepare for floods! That's all I am saying..
omicronnineJun 25, 2010
It makes sense. If gasoline can evaporate, then some part of the oil may be able to as well.
zippy757Jun 24, 2010
it's oil residue captured in moisture from burning oil on gulf, and returned via rain. It's earths way of cleaning the air.
grymusJun 24, 2010
Buried.
Reason: B.S.
You let people who have, zero intelligence, play with a Cam and you get such silliness.
Another example of a grade school drop out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3qFdbUEq5s
Not the EVIL Rainbows!!!
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hiropendragonJun 24, 2010
@Grymus
"Brown bubbly stuff" is not the same as rainbows from a hose, as you imply. Also, the video clearly shows the oil on the ground - not in the air.
grymusJun 24, 2010
It's the mentality that is being pointed out. But I am sorry you didn't pick that up.
I'll dumb it down next time.
sprucecabooseJun 24, 2010
So people aren't supposed to be worried when oil is showing up on their streets, or are they just supposed to worry silently so as not to disturb your Internets?
If you dislike contact with other people and their views so much, disconnect your ethernet cable and go back to your own little world.
Or, as your comments always seem to put it:
Buried.
Reason: Douche.
roguegeniusJun 24, 2010
I'm sensing a certain mentality at the moment to Gry. Denial never makes your problems go away.
arschgaudiJun 24, 2010
So I'm suppose to believe the oil is raining down from the sky as opposed to running off the lawn or driveway?
The retard factor here is astounding.
sprucecabooseJun 24, 2010
@arschgaudi: You are free to believe whatever you want to believe, but the video raises some concerns I feel would be best investigated. After all, it would be fairly easy to determine one way or the other where it is coming from. Neither possibility (oil run-off from cars/etc or oil being sucked from the gulf and deposited on land) is impossible, so perhaps a bit more information would be a good idea, no?
roguegeniusJun 24, 2010
No. You are supposed to use your f**king head for something other than holding up your hick 'chewing tobacco' hat.
Nothing, repeat NOTHING just vanishes. It can be transformed into something else, but it ain't going away. You can't make it go away by burning, you can't make it go away by 'dispersion' you can't make it go away by sinking it. In short, YOU CAN"T MAKE IT GO AWAY. Every drop that pumps into the gulf is going somewhere. And while I doubt the YouTube thing too, I don't dismiss it out of hand, because I know if it is disappearing on the gulf, it's going to reappear somewhere.
aronwyrthJun 24, 2010
What is the point, of the commas, in the middle of your sentence?
thechauvinistJun 24, 2010
I read that, in, a Christopher Walken voice, outloud, even.
mweatherJun 25, 2010
Is this BS, too?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXlC7gvvJZw
neez44Jun 24, 2010
welcome to 95
they want their digi cam back!
modigaJun 24, 2010
Were there digital cameras in '95?
exslashdotterJun 24, 2010
Oh yeah! I had a Kodak DC50 that only held 7 images at 756x504.
sprucecabooseJun 24, 2010
It was a cell phone.
bintoJun 24, 2010
Well, the jerkstore called. They're runnin' outta you!
megorJun 24, 2010
What's the difference you are their all time best seller!
naasukJun 24, 2010
Fun fact: here's the ultra-lunatic that made it.
http://www.youtube.com/dramatube2010
twitter.com/neworleanstour
facebook.com/neworleanstours
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Thedramatube
cyberfixaJun 24, 2010
Makes you think how many pyromaniacs have just packed their bags for Lousiana.
golddigger85Jun 24, 2010
In here(New York), its raining men... seriously!!!
createsomenoiseJun 24, 2010
Probably Bush's fault, eh?
shiftybiznissJun 24, 2010
agreed. from the youtube comments:
"It's raining mosaic"
digghasnoethicsJun 24, 2010
Right, its not likely to be oil that was already on the ground at all, was it?
I think I'll start a rumour that petroleum products in the air is making everyone moronically stupid. On the available evidence it will be on cable news with the hour.
oxycolibertyJun 24, 2010
So from RussiaToday eh? How creditable is that news source?
wf80diditJun 24, 2010
Pretty creditable, Alex Jones goes on them often.
decoy26517Jun 24, 2010
RussiaToday ripped off this guys video apparently: http://www.youtube.com/user/HistoryTours
irascib1eJun 24, 2010
RT is the s**t, my usual cycle for getting news is BBC, CNN, Fox, then RT.
palehorse864Jun 24, 2010
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gameboyhippoJun 24, 2010
Why are you guys digging him down? I was able to get the Urusei Yatsura reference without looking at the youtube video.
wildJun 24, 2010
You think rain tastes salty, wait to see how oil dispersant tastes!
wf80diditJun 24, 2010
Mommy, the rains melting my jacket!
gerardcornieljeJun 24, 2010
It's not possible for oil to drip from rain clouds.
anothersoldierJun 24, 2010
and when it does, you'll say what?
Closed AccountJun 25, 2010
remember the gulfwar of the early 90ies?
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
I'm thinking BS here
frccJun 24, 2010
I hope its true. If its really raining oil we're all going to be filthy rich.
anothersoldierJun 24, 2010
When it finally does rain oil, the world switches to electric cars.
bgoldsmithJun 24, 2010
Here's a higher quality version of the original vid. I'm still not sure who to believe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un8co1d4zb4
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
Could it be Humic Acid?
I believe it will leave a sheen on the water surface. That seems like a lot if it is Humic Acid. Humic Acid is cause by the break down of organic material (ie Leaves).
Raining Oil seems a little far fetched.
Closed AccountJun 25, 2010
sometimes on dusty days ... the rain is really dirty and leaves alot of dirt around and noticeably upon cars, etc. ... so why not oil? Its in the air, or how else could the air smell that bad around the spills? ... wouldn't the rainfall push the oil to the ground like it pushes dust to the ground?
It doesn't need to be soluble nor does it need to dissolve or mix with the water ... it just needs to be air-borne ... which (judging be the awful stink) it certainly is ...Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
virinixJun 24, 2010
I hate to rain oil on your parade...
If you take a barrel of oil, dump it in a indoor swimming pool that has bay windows on the roof, then let the sun hit it for a couple days, you'll find that a few % of the oil mass is gone.
It's called standard evaporation. Yes, up to 30% (depending on content in the earth) evaporates into air. Now oil and water don't bind well so, how do you solve that problem?
CoreExit. This allows a droplet of oil to half dissolve (if it's small enough) right into water vapour. Mix enough CoreExit with Oil, and you get massive clouds of 'oily water' floating around the Ocean. Oh wait, that's exactly whats happening. Now after progressive amounts of high-UV sunshine on the CoreExit+Oil mixture, you actually get a decent amount of it evaporating. A great deal of the 'CoreExit binded oil' floats around for ages. And, if the situation is right, you'll end up with streaked/rainbow puddles everywhere. But definately not sludge formation of any kind, as it would take weeks of rainfall for this much oil residue to collect in any noticeable quantity. In the case of the guy showing the dogwater in his bowl, that water is absolutely laced with CoreExit. You can't even feel that small of a amount, you can even drink it and not notice.
But the sludge in the video? That definately defies physics. So after my big long explanation:
Video = Fake
nnnyJun 24, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/06/24/24greenwire-bp-continues-to-use-surface-dispersants-in-gul-80293.html
darkaspitchJun 24, 2010
Oh yes, virinix, you have seen the world, and hold all of it's secrets...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raining_animals#Occurrences
f**king idiot.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
thechauvinistJun 24, 2010
No you are the f**king idiot. Don't be such a prick. Animals and chemicals are wonderful comparison. /s
Bryano (below) forgot to reply to you directly.
bryanoJun 24, 2010
Oh yeah, animals and oil. Same thing.
kooftJun 24, 2010
Whale blubber!
speedsteamboatJun 24, 2010
@darkAsPitch: Are you suggesting that tornadoes have been hitting the oil spill and carrying it inland? I don't think that's been happening.
darkaspitchJul 24, 2010
LOL @ all you americans hoping for the best... if wind is powerful enough to lift a frog out of the water it's swimming in, up into the clouds, and hurl it down onto some villagers... I think your hurricane speed winds (mostly funnel clouds, actually) could suck up some oily water into the sky no problem...
Is it "raining oil"...? No.
Could oil be sucked out of the sea and thrown onto land? Yes.
Is it possible that oil could fall from the sky? Especially during a violent storm? Yes.
Is it possible this video is 100% real? Yes.
thechauvinistJun 24, 2010
Where can I learn more about this phenomenon?
skaspudJun 25, 2010
massive amount of links in description, including from "Russia today"...
the man never points the camera up from the ground...
I call viral marketing.
d4rk354b3rJun 25, 2010
The fun part:
Corexit is toxic
darkaspitchJul 24, 2010
Maybe I should have linked you "f**kING IDIOTS" to this part of the page, one anchor up???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raining_animals#Explanations
Funnel clouds can carry almost anything into the sky... and VERY easily carry other forms of matter mixed up in an ocean's surface layers...(where they're HOPING most oil sits... forget the plumes...)
Now, downvote me again. Go ahead, pretend like the sun doesn't shine.
milkmageJun 24, 2010
come a listen to my sotry about a man named jed
poop mountaineer barely kept is family fed
then one day whi sottin' at some food and
up through the ground coumes a bubblun' crude..
Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
theosterJun 25, 2010
i dont know how you're not getting diggs for poop mountaineer
pw378Jun 24, 2010
Buried as more bulls**t hysteria. BP deserves a heaping batch of criticism over this, but outright lies and fabrications only serve to discredit valid issues.
ubitendoJun 24, 2010
Nice job BP...you stupidass motherf**kers.
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
Has it been proven that BP are entirely to blame, yet?
lloydbentsenJun 24, 2010
It was their f**king well.
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
With a rig owned by Transocean, various edifices by Halliburton and regulation by the MMS.
Several parties are involved - I think I'd rather hear from all sides before blaming anyone.
serinusJun 24, 2010
Wait, what?!? You're saying it's the MMS's fault that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990 because it wasn't there to stop it? No, I'm pretty sure that's Glenn Beck's fault, even if MMS could and should have stopped it.
theosterJun 25, 2010
@ubitendo
"BP is the one overseeing this operation so they get the blame"
you clearly have never worked in the professional world. there are contracts and agreements galore where every single word will be thrown into question as to its definition. fingers will be pointed for probably decades before anyone is actually held accountable.
loconetJun 24, 2010
http://www.meh.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/meh.ro4399.jpg
aetherflashJul 9, 2010
This just made my day. d(^_^)b
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
Holy f**kin s**t! O.k., so I know it's 99% a fake but like user Dilberto said "wait until hurricane season". I live in Miami beach and the spill has yet to affect us yet, with the hurricane season now in effect (June 1- Nov. 30) and NOAA "expecting busy Atlantic hurricane season",
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100527_hurricaneoutlook.html
I would say this would be an apocalyptic sign if it were truly to rain oil.
superkendallJul 12, 2010
They say it's a busy season every year and then usually very little happens.
At this point I'd be more scared if they said it was going to be a calm season.
smackydoodleJun 24, 2010
It's raining shenanigans
thechauvinistJun 24, 2010
...I'm gonna pistol whip somebody.
airnikeJun 24, 2010
Faker's are the devils saints.
duraidenJun 24, 2010
I am skeptical to a degree, but it seems odd that you'd see that much oil on a street unless those guys were doing it on purpose. As for how the oil could get there, you don't only get water into the atmosphere through evaporation, some oil could have been brought up through water spouts and then caught a jet stream and moved hundreds of miles.
jza414Jun 24, 2010
After the 7th surprised expression of disbelief at the oil/rain.... I pushed the vuvuzela button.
BzzzzZZZZzzzzzzZZZzzZZZZZZZzZzzzzzZzzzzZZZ
socialistmediaJun 24, 2010
:)
hanniballecterJun 24, 2010
BP's probably wondering why the Louisiana residents aren't more grateful, I bet. I mean, they've made them all rich - it's raining the most valuable resource on the planet...
greatbigjerkJun 24, 2010
Has there actually been any legitimate proof of this being fake or not?
tentenwinsJun 25, 2010
It isn't fake...just bulls**t. That is real oil on the ground...but it did not fall from the sky. The rain mixed with oil that some dumbass spilled on the ground.
konhachiJun 24, 2010
Reported by diggers as possibly inaccurate. (AKA This is totally bulls**t).
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
This isnt very surprising since they are adding so much dispersant to the oil to keep it from washing up on the shores. The dispersant makes the oil mix with water so its going to be "in" the ocean rather than on top of the ocean. If its in the ocean it seems logical that it will evaporate along with the water and get into the rain cycle. The dispersant only masks the problem and moves it from one place to another. This is only the beginning of the extent of the damage that we will see.
tentenwinsJun 25, 2010
Take a physics and chemistry class..then coome back and admit how stupid your comment is.
zuperxtremeJun 24, 2010
If the oil is still around by hurricane season(which it most likely will be) and the oil/oil-byproducts/anything flammable is evaporated and combines with a hurricane, you'll have a flammable hurricane. Ignite it and you've got yourself a fire hurricane. :o
skztrJun 24, 2010
for 0.03 seconds, and then you've got yourself a warm breeze, no more oil, no more hurricane, and a 60 trillion dollar contract to inject oil into the gulf of mexico for the next fifty years.
random12345Jun 24, 2010
Fire hurricanes?!?!?! f**k!
On that note- it IS hurricane season ;)
richmomzJun 24, 2010
The oil's really going to hit the fan when hurricane season starts to pick up...
polartxJun 24, 2010
lliiiiitttteerrrralllly
tommydukesJun 24, 2010
You mean s**t doesn't just disappear when you burn it?
monkeynachoJun 24, 2010
:( is right.
butlermonkeyJun 24, 2010
Is this shocking, or rather the idea of this happening shocking? I'm not saying that a clip on YouTube is science or should be taken as fact but I was thinking this was going to be a possibility as soon as the scope of this disaster was revealed.
There is so much oil in the water that when a hurricane does happen I would figure that some of it is going to get picked up and dispersed inland. I would guess that it would be concentrated closer to the cost as the oil is heavier then the water but when a hurricane eventually turns into a normal storm system and makes it's way up to my location in Toronto, I doubt I'll be wanting to stand around in that rain. I'm just curious if this will effect crops and livestock - I think it's silly to think that this is a problem that's only going to affect the Gulf area. I think this may have gone past the point of "fixing" it to having to deal with it and hopefully offset the ramifications of this disaster and if anything learn from it, demand that government do its job to make sure everything is done to avoid problems like this and spark a light in people's brains that profits aren't everything, especially when money can't buy your out of a situation like this.
grey580Jun 24, 2010
If this is the same crappy video from the truck yard I'm still not convinced.
When the oil starts appearing in rain gauges then it's hammer time.
monevthegaleJun 24, 2010
This is not the chocolate rain I was expecting...
veriixJun 24, 2010
Once it starts raining men as well it's just gonna be a big gay orgy.
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
Horsefeathers. A water spout could lift up the oil contaminated water, but this is just BS.
jnismeJun 24, 2010
buried as inaccurate
jpric18Jun 24, 2010
dugg for The Ridge making Digg Top 10
maxamousJun 24, 2010
CHOCOLATE RAINNNNNN
nick041Jun 24, 2010
I'm sure BP is saying you're welcome for the free oil.
orbital318Jun 24, 2010
the comments are hilarious
Closed AccountJun 24, 2010
Can it do that??
sulakattackJun 24, 2010
damn man, i feel bad for louisiana. it seems like theyre always in the middle of another s**tty situation.